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The CW is bringing back three of its popular alternative series for the 2022-23 broadcast season. The network has renewed Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Masters of Illusion for a ninth season and World’s Funniest Animals for a third season. Premiere dates are TBA. There is no renewal decision yet on CW veteran Whose Line I…

Killer Camp, the CW's adaptation of the British non-scripted format, has been pulled from the youth-skewing network after only two episodes of its second season. The series, which sees a group of 13 campers navigate their way through twists and surprises while competing to expose a ‘killer’ among them in return for a…

The CW is looking ahead to sunnier days, setting season premiere dates for a quartet of its summer series: the unscripted Masters of Illusion and Penn & Teller: Fool Us and dramas Burden of Truth and Bulletproof. Season 7 of the magic-themed Masters of Illusion will appear at 8 p.m. Friday, May 15, while the…

The CW has made its summer plans. The network said today that its new action-adventure series Hooten & the Lady will premiere at 9 PM Thursday, July 13, and set the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Masters of Illusion and Penn & Teller: Fool Us for May, June and July, respectively. Spanning eight hourlong episodes…

The CW said today that it has renewed its summer series Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Masters of Illusion. All will return in 2017. Hosted by Alyson Hannigan, the hourlong magic competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us will return for Season 4 with the duo inviting aspiring magicians to…

The last Friday of the season had a trio of finales with Shark Tank (1.2/5), Grimm (0.9/4) and The Originals (0.4/3) and one debut in Masters Of Illusion (0.4/2). On a pretty slow night when Shark Tank and 20/20, up 20%, were tied for the top rated show, the finales were a mixed bag. Compared to last week, the 2-hour…

UPDATED, June 20: The CW said today that Season 3 of Penn & Teller: Fool Us now will premiere Wednesday, July 13, two days later than originally planned. PREVIOUSLY, April 5: In the summertime when the weather is hot, the CW has revealed just what it’s got. With apologies to Mungo Jerry, the broadcast net today set…

Now nearly two weeks in, the new TV season has started to settle in a bit. But that doesn't mean new shows aren't still making their debuts – even on Fridays. And the premiere of comedy Dr. Ken (1.4/6) was a nice jolt for ABC, in fact the sitcom was the top scripted show of the night. Coming off the second week of the…

The CW has ordered new seasons of America’s Next Top Model, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and Masters Of Illusion to air during 2015. After acquiring the original British series from DCD Rights to air this past summer, network has ordered 13 brand new one-hour episodes of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, which will go back into…

The abbreviated fourth season of the CW’s small town medical dramedy Hart of Dixie will debut on Jan. 9 and air in the series’ most recent Friday 9 PM slot. In announcing the return date for Hart of Dixie, the CW kept short of announcing that it would be the show’s final season as has been rumored. The upcoming fourth…

Things were smoldering on Utopia (0.5/2) last night, and not just because of the heat wave that pummeled Southern California the last two weeks. Relationships, politics, shorty shorts and a move from 8 PM to 9 PM aside, the second Friday broadcast of the highly hyped Fox social experiment was down 28 % among adults…